santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Clear and 55° this morning. Looking at 86° later on today, then a few days of thunderstorms with highs around 80°. Our humid season will begin.
Off to a late start this morning, I ran into my next door neighbor while walking this morning and we talked for a bit. She has decided to resume walking before she goes to work and today is her first day.
The dew finally dried off enough around 2:00 yesterday for me to get about an hour of mowing in. More of the same this afternoon.
Since I was mowing late into the afternoon, I just ran trains out in the train shed yesterday. Also, since there was no wind, I did a couple of short flights with my drone. Here are a couple of pictures of the Corps of Engineers flood control lake across the road, about 200 yards away from our house.
The lake is on private property and the Corps maintains it. I have only seen them actually maintain it one summer when they added about 170 truckloads of "rip-rack" (the foreman's estimate) along the dam. That's the light colored rock lining the waterline in the picture above. It protects the earthen dam from erosion caused by wave action. The lake itself is about 26 acres in size, but has expanded to over 600 acres a couple of times since we moved in. The top of the actual dam itself is one foot lower than the road in front of our house, so we are not in the flood plain. Other problems exist if it really rains that much, like the road going north is under water for several hundred feet. We've always been able to get out going south except while runoff was actually happening.
Len - That Sherman Hill Model Railroad Club really looks like a great place.
Swal - For over 30 years, I commuted to work in a Honda Civic, different cars before that. Whenever I bought a new one, I asked the dealer to include a full-sized spare, usually after we agreed on a price and signed the contract. Both different dealers that I used always agreed.
Chad - Good luck with the possible new job.
Hughie - The Pierogie building complex looks really good.
Joe - A three hour medical procedure is great. Take care with your recovery.
Snowman - I offer my condolences on the passing of your Mom. May she rest in peace. Now is the time to get yourself back into life.
Patrick - The first ballasting picture looks very good.
Today is Earth Day. Go and plant a tree. Jack Nicholson is 88 today, making many of us seem like kids!
Everyone have a great Tuesday.
Off to a late start this morning, I ran into my next door neighbor while walking this morning and we talked for a bit. She has decided to resume walking before she goes to work and today is her first day.
The dew finally dried off enough around 2:00 yesterday for me to get about an hour of mowing in. More of the same this afternoon.
Since I was mowing late into the afternoon, I just ran trains out in the train shed yesterday. Also, since there was no wind, I did a couple of short flights with my drone. Here are a couple of pictures of the Corps of Engineers flood control lake across the road, about 200 yards away from our house.
The lake is on private property and the Corps maintains it. I have only seen them actually maintain it one summer when they added about 170 truckloads of "rip-rack" (the foreman's estimate) along the dam. That's the light colored rock lining the waterline in the picture above. It protects the earthen dam from erosion caused by wave action. The lake itself is about 26 acres in size, but has expanded to over 600 acres a couple of times since we moved in. The top of the actual dam itself is one foot lower than the road in front of our house, so we are not in the flood plain. Other problems exist if it really rains that much, like the road going north is under water for several hundred feet. We've always been able to get out going south except while runoff was actually happening.
Len - That Sherman Hill Model Railroad Club really looks like a great place.
Swal - For over 30 years, I commuted to work in a Honda Civic, different cars before that. Whenever I bought a new one, I asked the dealer to include a full-sized spare, usually after we agreed on a price and signed the contract. Both different dealers that I used always agreed.
Chad - Good luck with the possible new job.
Hughie - The Pierogie building complex looks really good.
Joe - A three hour medical procedure is great. Take care with your recovery.
Snowman - I offer my condolences on the passing of your Mom. May she rest in peace. Now is the time to get yourself back into life.
Patrick - The first ballasting picture looks very good.
Today is Earth Day. Go and plant a tree. Jack Nicholson is 88 today, making many of us seem like kids!
Everyone have a great Tuesday.
It brings back memories of when this 19 year old California kid landed in Miami, in August.
I spent 2 years in Miami earning my BS and swore I would never have anything to do with that steaming swamp ever again. I think there was maybe 2 months I wasn't sweating.
